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Homer's Original Genius. Eighteenth-Century Notions of the Early Greek Epic (1688-1798)

Abstract: List of plates List of abbreviations Preface Introduction Part I. Ancients and Moderns: 1. Ancients and moderns: the problem of cultural progress 2. Opposition to antiquity: Charles Perrault 3. The interpretation of early Greek epic: Mme Dacier and the Homeric war 4. Pope's view of Homer: 'fire' and invention 5. Voltaire and the poetry of the primitive age Part II. Primitivism and Realism: 6. Epic genius: the departure from the neoclassical model 7. Vico's discovery of the true Homer 8. Thomas Blackwell: the problem of Homer's genius 9. Notions of poetry and society in the controversy about Ossian 10. The primitivists and the primitive bard 11. Poetry is 'original imitation': Robert Wood's theory of the Homeric epic 12. The originality of Homer: some conclusions Notes Bibliography Index.

Credo Quia Absurdum

Abstract: Tertullien, De carne Christi, 5,4| citation usuelle, deformee| paradoxe, non pas pensee absurde.